To J. D. Caton 20 July 1871
Summary
Letter of introduction for his sons [G. H. and Francis Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Dean Caton |
| Date: | 20 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.402) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7875 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1871]
Summary
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 199–200 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7878 |
To Vernon Lushington 24 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for providing turtle soup.
Not quite so sure he thanks VL for introducing Richard Buckley Litchfield into the Darwin family to be CD’s son-in-law.
Asks about the lip position of a pouting child.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vernon Lushington |
| Date: | 24 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7880F |
To J. D. Hooker 26 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information about Henslow’s mouse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7881 |
To Roland Trimen 27 July 1871
Summary
Invites RT to call on him while he is staying at Haredene.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 27 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7884 |
To E. A. Darwin [after 29 July 1871?]
Summary
Asks [EAD] to get signatures as opportunity offers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | [after 29 July 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7887 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 4 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8963 |
To [W. W. Baxter?] [early July 1871]
Summary
Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.
Are measuring glasses accurate?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [early July 1871] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9524 |
To Violetta Galton 12 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks his aunt for a note about a picture bought by CD’s sons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Darwin; Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Galton |
| Date: | 12 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7860 |
| letter | (29) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Grove, W. R. | (2) |
| Riley, C. V. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Grove, W. R. | (2) |
| Riley, C. V. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
